I need jazz recommendations
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Topic: I need jazz recommendations
Posted By: Volkmar
Subject: I need jazz recommendations
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 4:49am
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Hello jazz enthousiasts I have been a music lover all my life. I love to listen to a great variety of different music styles, including jazz. However, I am so unfamiliar with jazz music, that I don't seem to find the type of jazz music that I like. Honestly, most jazz music I have tried, seems just too noisy, too smooth, or too dull for me. Most jazz music that I like, was created by pop musicians (because I know a lot more about pop music than about jazz). For example, I love all work by Sade, which is kind of slow jazzy pop music, and I love Matt Bianco, which is more uptempo latin jazzy pop music. I really love the songs 'moon over bourbon street' by Sting, 'Lily was here' by Dave Stewart & Candy Dulpher, 'Kissing a fool' by George Michael (already a bit too smooth for me), 'your latest trick' by the Dire Straits, 'wild horses' by Gino Vanelli, and 'come together' and 'I want you' by the Beatles. I also like Nina Simone, Simon & Garfunkel, The Moody Blues, The Alan Parsons Project, Billy Joel, and several other artists and bands who included some 'jazzy' sounding music in their repertoire. So my question to you is: what jazz would you recommend me, that is not too noisy (no showing off instrumental skills rather than playing music, and no big bands), not too smooth (I like a bit 'raw' sound, like Blues. Most jazz labeled 'smooth jazz' is way too smooth for me), and not too dull (I'm not looking for restaurant background music). I would love to hear your recommendations about artists, albums (including compilation albums by various artists), and even individual tracks that you particularly love. I am an audiophile, so I'm not really interested in old (pre-WWII) recordings. Thanks for sharing!
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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 6:33am
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Steely Dan will probably fit well on your list (if you still don't know them), they weren't jazz artists though, as many others on you list: or just one of them, Donald Fagen solo: almost all their albums are of audiophile quality :) are you interested in instrumental music as well, or vocal songs only (as all artists on your list)?
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 7:09am
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A lot of the music you like can be found in our jazz related pop section, such as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and Chicago. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/subgenre/jazz-related-popart-songfolk" rel="nofollow - http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/subgenre/jazz-related-popart-songfolk
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Posted By: Volkmar
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:45am
Yes I also like instrumental music a lot! Thanks for your recommendations so far. I'll certainly check them out!
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snobb wrote:Posted By: Volkmar
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:48am
Thanks for the tip! But I'm also looking for actual jazz now, not just jazz related pop music.
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 12:43pm
| ^ Who is a jazz artist that you like? |
Posted By: Volkmar
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 1:36pm
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The only 'real jazz artists' I mentioned in my first post seem to be Nina Simone and Candy Dulpher. What I like about the Sting song (moon over bourbob street) and 'Lily was here' by Dave Stewart and Candy Dulpher, is that they are pretty minimalistic. I have tried searching for 'minimal jazz' (like minimal techno), but my search didn't give me any results.
I also like The Guitar Trio (Al di Meola, Paco de Lucia and John McLaughlin), and I like Toots Thielemans' beautiful harmonica. I also like piano music like Louis van Dijk and Pim Jacobs. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 9:21pm
| Euge Groove, Boney James and maybe Brian Culbertson may be similar to Candy Dulpher. |
Posted By: Volkmar
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2020 at 10:35am
| thanx for your tips! |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2020 at 10:54am
| You're welcome. |
Posted By: Tzeck
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 5:03am
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I think you would like Ahmad Jamal - not quite the minimalist, but not an expansionist either. Beautiful piano work and groovy rhythms. I first got into jazz with the smooth jazz-like, but very song-oriented (although vocal-less) music of Acoustic Alchemy. (Candy Dulfer being the other "starter" one). The first real jazz musician for me should have been Lars Danielsson, I guess. Try his album from 2017, for instance. The compositions there are almost hit-material :) Or Tarantella. I highly recommend two Serbian bands that are jazz and something more: Vasil Hadžimanov Band (Balkan folk motives here, but not excessive) and Fish in Oil (blues, punk and rock in the mix, quite cinematographic at places). ___ AJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUvkO4A5Vo AA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39CXw-ycXjY LD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5wyaauKkjg VHB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj5SjI53ixkFiO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZNU1dNQYdY But don't take my choice of tracks for granted, do your own search. |